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'Nobody believes him': Morning Joe rips Alito's excuse for 'disgusting' MAGA flaghttps://t.co/AgtHkN0OG0

— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 17, 2024

I really can’t improve on what Joe Scarborough said:

"A neighbor upsets me, comes out and upsets me because the Rays beat the Red Sox, and the Red Sox really suck, and so I'm mad," Scarborough said. "I'm not hanging my flag upside down. This is dumb as when I heard about the Dobbs leak – nobody believes him." 

"These people, these Trumpers, who have spent their entire life attacking people for being insufficiently patriotic, then they lose, and they just hate America," Scarborough said. "They hate America. They're constantly going around saying how weak we are. They hate our military, they say our weak our military is when it is the strongest in the world. They hate our economy, they claim the president of the United States is a socialist. The Dow [Jones on Thursday] made all of these people a lot richer, breaking 40,000 for the first time, despite Donald Trump's lies that it would collapse if Joe Biden was president of the United States. They hate this country, they attack this country." 

"The only time they love it is when their person is in office, and I've got to say, and we have a lot of legal, brilliant minds around this table, they can speak to this later if they want to," Scarborough said. "I will tell you, growing up, one of my friends' fathers was a federal judge. I had no idea until I got older whether he was Republican or Democrat. That was the case in northwest Florida, very conservative place. The federal judges kept themselves beyond reproach, they never talked politics, ever. In the privacy of their homes, if you ask them an opinion, they would just say, 'Not my job,' right? 'I'm a judge.' They actually took their oath seriously. For a Supreme Court justice, and I will say, my opinion only, but the guy most likely to have had something to do with the leaking of the Dobbs decision, leaking it to the Wall Street Journal or somebody connected to him leaking it to the Wall Street Journal because he wanted to keep Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett frozen in place. I think history will show that." 

"But that aside, for a guy who is a Supreme Court justice, to let that happen at his own home in one of the most fraught times in American history since the Civil War, it's just sad," Scarborough added. "It shows how little respect he has for the institution. It shows how little respect he has for the law, it really does. It's disgusting, it's just disgusting."

So let’s talk about Justice Alito:

Since we now know Alito was flying his flag upside down at the time, let’s review one of the plans the coup plotters had involving him. https://t.co/Amp4ZLMuiQ

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 17, 2024

if a bunch of "Jocko" lawn jockeys or signs with the N-word appeared on my lawn and my response was that my wife decided to put them up I suspect I'd still be in a substantial amount of trouble. https://t.co/I1J7TADuc4

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 17, 2024

Lifetime appointment? Who was it decided that was a Constitutional provision? Oh, yeah, the Supreme Court. No judges in the federal system enjoy that privilege except the Justices on the “High Court.” Maybe it’s at least time to reconsider that “good behavior” clause and what it covers.